It's so hot in Japan that the country invented a word for it, really. Deadly heat waves have transformed a major part of the world into a plot of a sci-fi movie where people are cooping up at homes and fighting for air conditioners at marts. Large parts of East Asia have been gripped in a deadly heat wave, bringing the hottest temperature on record in South Korea and complicating earthquake recovery efforts in Japan.
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